Austlii Foundation Limited
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Mission Statement
The AustLII Foundation Limited’s objects are to: • Be a not for profit entity to promote the sound administration and development of the law by: o Promoting and supporting free and effective access to public legal information in Australia by means of an electronic public library; o Providing, and supporting the provision by its members of free anonymous public access in Australia to a searchable and regularly updated comprehensive and reliable internet-based electronic public library of Australian public legal materials; • Maintain systems, programmes and databases for the effective handling of an electronic public library of information and related policy development, collaborate with other researchers and providers of such information, and develop, implement and disseminate improvements and associated technical assistance and advice; • Advance legal education by promoting and encouraging research in the field of legal information systems and dissemination of the useful results thereof; and • Do all other things as may be incidental or ancillary to the attainment of these objects.
About This Cause
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is Australia’s most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information. It provides critical national research infrastructure supporting justice and enabling the rule of law for Australia and internationally. AustLII provides a comprehensive collection of legal information integrated through the use of cutting edge information technology, enabling free and effective access to law for the community. AustLII advocates for free-access policies and works to expand the scope and utility of legal information available for free access by the community. Established in 1995, AustLII aims to be a comprehensive source of legal information maintaining extensive data provision agreements with government, courts, educational institutions and businesses, with jurisdictional breadth and historical depth. It provides an integrated framework of primary and secondary content, with tools and services to support the legal information and research needs of the many different communities who access its resources. AUSTLII CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGIES AustLII Content Online free access to hundreds of full-text databases of primary and secondary Australasian legal materials, combined with a comprehensive international citator, trusted community content and applications to support legal advice and decision making. 1. Legal Databases, including: - Comprehensive legislation and related legislative materials from all jurisdictions - Case law from most courts, tribunals and regulators (past and present) - The text of all treaties to which Australia is a party - An extensive collection of law journals, law reform reports and judicial scholarship - Aggregated subject specific collections and virtual databases 2. LawCite, an Australian and international free-access citator for cases and journal articles, that generates citation records by automatically indexing and data mining millions of documents on AustLII and collaborating LIIs from around the world. 3. AustLII Communities, a platform for innovation in the creation of free-access legal information that is provided by a wide range of ‘trusted’ user communities and that is fully integrated with all the legislative, case law, treaty and legal scholarship resources on AustLII. The content on AustLII Communities is easily updatable by authors and information providers and contains: - Plain language law handbooks and other guides to the law - Legal textbooks, annotations and case summaries - Collaborative educational resources for the teaching of law - Knowledge-bases for use with DataLex 4. DataLex, a rule-based legal inferencing platform (a type of legal AI known as an ‘expert system’ or decision-support system) that can be used to assist legal advisory services and to support regulatory compliance applications. DataLex interacts with the AustLII Communities platform, which enables the sustainable collaborative development of knowledge-based applications that can run on DataLex to help find solutions to legal problems. AustLII Technologies AustLII continuously innovates to be at the forefront of information technology and legal research, to enable more effective and productive use of its wealth of content. Technical Innovations include: - Automatic insertion of millions of hypertext links in all AustLII’s pages, including links to sections of legislation, cases and journal articles - AustLII’s SINO (Size Is No Object) search engine providing fast retrieval with Boolean, proximity operators and relevance ranking of results - Development of point-in-time legislation to complement comprehensive hyperlinking of legislative materials - Data mining and sophisticated heuristics used by LawCite to identify citations in documents on AustLII and collaborating LIIs around the world - A collaborative editing platform to enable user generated content on AustLII Communities - DataLex legal inferencing engine and associated software technologies CHARITABLE OPERATION The operations and maintenance of AustLII’s Australian databases, infrastructure and services is managed by AustLII Foundation Limited, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee with charitable objectives. The AustLII Foundation does not seek user access subscriptions or advertising because they are inconsistent with its free-access policies. AustLII asks all its users, those that publish via its services, those that support its free-access goals and those that otherwise benefit from its operations, to make an annual contribution that reflects the value of AustLII to them and to the Australian community. Courts and tribunals, government departments and agencies, the legal profession (law firms, solicitors and barristers), law faculties of Australia’s universities and other educational institutions, business and industry, and the wider community all make financial contributions to support AustLII. INTERNATION COLLABORATIONS AustLII also conducts leading edge international research in technologies for developing legal information systems, funded by grants from government and other sources. AustLII is a founding member of the global Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) and collaborates with other free-access LIIs around the world to operate three international multi-LII systems for legal information, integrated with the LawCite citator: → Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) → Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) → World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) AustLII jointly operates the New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) and the LII of India, in cooperation with local partners in those countries, as well as providing a ‘cloud’ service and backup facilities for the national legal database services for over 20 countries (including New Zealand, India, Liberia, Cyprus and most of the countries of the Pacific Islands).